Carnegie Mellon University

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 19, 2015

Carnegie Mellon University mistakenly emails acceptance notices to about 800 applicants for graduate computer science program, then emails them saying acceptance notices were sent in error; CMU becomes latest among big-name colleges to make such a mistake, but error is particularly ironic given fact that school is renowned for quality of its computer science courses. MORE

Nov. 2, 2014

Apr. 2, 2014

Judge Nora Barry Fischer of Federal District Court in Pittsburgh orders Marvell Technology Group to pay nearly $1.54 billion to Carnegie Mellon University for selling billions of semiconductors that infringed school’s two hard disk drive patents. MORE

Nov. 21, 2013

Carnegie Mellon University announces plans for an applied sciences program in New York City; it will be the fourth institution of higher learning, and the first from out of state, to announce such plans; program will be in Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. MORE

Nov. 14, 2013

The hedge fund billionaire’s donation brings his total giving to Carnegie Mellon in the last decade to more than $125 million. MORE

Feb. 6, 2013

Subra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation, is chosen as the next president of Carnegie Mellon University. MORE

Dec. 27, 2012

Carnegie Mellon University is awarded $1.17 billion by a federal jury in Pittsburgh in a unanimous verdict that found the Marvell Technology Group sold billions of semiconductors using technology developed at the university without a license; award is one of the largest in a patent infringement case. MORE

Dec. 22, 2011

Architecture students from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Utah produce their own designs for the Joyce’s dance theater space at ground zero; architect Frank Gehry has already presented his commissioned design, but the students have not been briefed on those plans. MORE